These are some photos that were found of some of my grandfathers cars. The theme for these photos is caravans!

Austin Freeway

The first Austin 1800

The second 1800

Triumph 2000

Land Rover

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mk1 [ Wed May 16, 2018 2:05 pm ]

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Those are cracking photos, cracking cars & great scenery. Thanks for sharing!

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Old English White [ Wed May 16, 2018 4:23 pm ]

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Some great photos. We threw away a great deal of our Worldwide car industry didn't we

Funnily enough I had a BMC 1800 followed by a Triumph 2000 - although both were the Mk2 versions. Both were very good tow cars.

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rich@minispares.com [ Wed May 16, 2018 4:43 pm ]

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certainly got his money out of that caravan!

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goff [ Wed May 16, 2018 7:51 pm ]

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Great photo's Timmy , Love land crabs , though never owned one , must get me self one , Janet would go mad if i brought another car home

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morris-miner [ Wed May 16, 2018 8:27 pm ]

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Lovely photos and thanks for sharing.

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timmy201 [ Wed May 16, 2018 11:09 pm ]

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He did like the caravan, although after he sold the Range Rover he started to get into camper vans. The caravan was also used as overflow accomodation when visitors came to stay (although my mum and aunt had to stay in the caravan while the guests were inside). He certainly took a lot of photos of his cars, he even kept all the receipts for the cars, registration renewal papers and newspaper clippings of his next purchase!

The Range Rover was a very early model for Australia, it was bought mid 1973. It was sold on in less than a year for more than the initial purchase price after driving around Australia!

The Range Rover sold for enough money to buy a new VW Kombi Camper and a new Leyland Marina

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jay weinstein [ Wed May 16, 2018 11:45 pm ]

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Your mom and aunt were probably happy to be away from the guests and just hang out with each other....been there!Did your father keep his trailer garaged?Looks way too nice to have been parked outside.

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UHR850 [ Thu Jun 21, 2018 2:42 pm ]

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No family but very good friends in those days (1975).We had a summer camp in de woods in the Netherlands.Did bring along all kind of sporting things, one of them hadthe Mk1 Mini and we used it to jump over it.

Kees.

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rich@minispares.com [ Thu Jun 21, 2018 3:45 pm ]

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UHR850 wrote:

:roll: No family but very good friends in those days (1975).We had a summer camp in de woods in the Netherlands.Did bring along all kind of sporting things, one of them hadthe Mk1 Mini and we used it to jump over it.

Kees.

great photos!

but google Duncan McKenzie - he was famous for been able to jump over a mini from the ground!